Bill Drost

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

In the Pentecostalism in Colombia book its says he left to Uruguay in 1959 ... perhaps he returned back to Colombia?

It's been a while since I read the book. I can't remember where all he went when.

On page 149, chapter 19 is titled "Opening in Ecuador."
A date is not given. He went in for a while and preached and baptized some folks. Someone had witnessed to them previously. He was arrested and charged with disturbing the peace. When a judge told him he did not have a permit for preaching, he showed him Mark 16:15 and the judge let him go.

The next chapter has a reference to 1952 in it.

Chapter 29, page 213 tells about going to Peru.

[SDG]

Originally Posted by jaxfam6

I don't know if that was his son and grandsons but yes there were Drost's in Mexico. The one is now in Texas if I remember right. He is a fantastic preacher and great person in general.

Marcos, grandson, is in Texas ....

Bill's son is T. Wynn ... who is the Supt. of the work in Mexico for the UPCI

... more on T. Wynn ... here http://www.bethelchristian.org/content/view/41/88/

T. Wynn is a great speaker!!!! His Spanish is impeccable!!!

[jaxfam6]

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

Marcos, grandson, is in Texas ....

Bill's son is T. Wynn ... who is the Supt. of the work in Mexico for the UPCI

... more on T. Wynn ... here http://www.bethelchristian.org/content/view/41/88/

T. Wynn is a great speaker!!!! His Spanish is impeccable!!!

Yep that is the one. He was preaching for us the Sunday my youngest received the Holy Ghost.

[SDG]

Originally Posted by jaxfam6

Yep that is the one. He was preaching for us the Sunday my youngest received the Holy Ghost.

Great guy ... Marcos ... last saw him in Stockton in 2006 ... SEM conference.

Daniel??? ... well ..... quite the character !!!!!

We had some heated debate one time over dinner about LaHayes teachings on temperaments ...

Steven, I believe(?), and my oldest brother .... may have got into some trouble w/ the police when the hopped a NYC subway years ago.
Oops ... did I say that?

[SDG]

Originally Posted by daniel alicea

read page 63 ...

drost and larsen ... Went with stairs under the canadian branch ...

the canadians were supporting the colombian church to break w/ the us church ... Circa 1965


http://books.google.com/books?id=8MC...cad=0#PPA66,M1


this may answer your question, sam.

bump for sam-age.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

bump for sam-age.

My iMac had problems downloading the stuff on that site.

[SDG]

Originally Posted by Sam

My iMac had problems downloading the stuff on that site.

Fixed the links ...

However, sociologist Flora writes about 1965 ...

Division in the United Pentecostal Church in North America affected Colombian Pentecostals. Brother Stairs, of the
Canadian Branch of the United Pentecostal Church, led a separation movement of Canadian churches from the parent body.
A separate Canadian mission board was set up. The Larsens, in Colombia, and the Drosts, now in Uruguay, went with the Canadian
branch of the church, becoming their missionaries, financially dependent upon them instead of the United States. The Thompsons
and Morleys stayed with the U.S. branch of the church. The U.S. church was given Colombia as a missions field. The Canadians
began urging the Colombian Pentecostals to separate for the United States, make themselves independent and join in partnership
with the Canadians.

If I take what Bishop Holland says ... the center of this was control ... and especially control of the purse strings.

The national church in Colombia writes a manifesto in 1965 also.

In 1967 the break is finalized in Colombia ... Morley and Thompson resign from the national affiliation ... and stay with the mothership ... under the International umbrella.

I guess ... we can surmise that Drost ... was either sent to Spain by the Canadian mission board ... or decided Europe was a greener less politicized pasture than S. America ...

and of course in need of the message and heeding to the calling of God.

Lastly, Spain has been a challenge for Oneness Pentecostals ... even to this day ... it's strong roots in Catholicism and European liberalism ... might have appealed to Drost as challenging field to till.

Those Spaniards, Italians and French will not give up their wine.

OPs have yet to make a significant dent in this area of the world, IMO.

[SDG]

After the Colombians made their demands for sovereignty known in the manifesto in 1965 ...
Nationalization takes place in 1967 ... Zuniga takes the Supt. post.

Page 64 of Pentecostalism in Colombia, Baptism by Spirit and Fire, by Cornelia Butler Flora

Nationalization allowed the Colombian Church to work more closely with the Canadians. Conflict ensued between the Canadian and American interests in Colombia, the former being represented by the Larsens and the latter by the Thompsons and the Morleys.

The Larsen's daughter married a Colombian believer, and together with the Drosts and another Colombian couple were the first Latin American missionaries to Spain, funded jointly by the Colombian and Canadian United Pentecostal Churches.

The new constitution that came with nationalization relegated the missionaries that were in Colombia to an advisory role and explicitly forbade new foreign missionaries to enter the country. The missionaries were now to report their actions to the national junta, which would then decide whether or not the missionaries could go ahead with their proposed projects.

[SDG]

Things wee just as interesting in the Caribbean as in S. America .... for many years with missionaries like Smith and Burton

[Apprehended]

Bill Thompson once told me that the UPC Hq had cut off his funds. He had a SFC pickup truck that he had been given so he turned it into a taxi by which means he was able to survive until funds were restored. The UPCI had tried to dictate some things to him which were not acceptable. If need be, he had determined to no remain with the UPCI unless things had changed. They did. His money was restored and the stupid demands that they had placed on him were dropped.